Kata Markon

["Bridget Gilfillan Upton" <b.gilfillan-upton AT heythrop.ac.uk>]

I think I should be tempted to put in something on Mark's narrative strategies in order to make the stylistic unit as large as possible. Almost anything of Elizabeth Struthers Malbon (perhaps her essay in Capel Anderson and Moore (eds) Mark and Method), and something from Joanna Dewey on orality --  ‘The Gospel of Mark as an Oral-Aural Event: Implications for Interpretation’ in McKnight and Struthers Malbon (eds.) (145-63)  The New Literary Criticism and the New Testament (Pennsylvania: Trinity Press) 1994 and perhaps Tannehill 1979 ‘The Gospel of Mark as Narrative Christology’ Semeia 16 (57-94).

 

This may not be at all what you want, so please ignore if not....

 

Sounds a lovely course to me.

 

All the best,

 

Bridget

 

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----- Original Message -----

From: "Peter Head" <pmh15 AT cam.ac.uk>

To: "Kata Markon" <gmark AT lists.ibiblio.org>

Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:07 AM

Subject: Re: [GMark] Language and Style of Mark

> 
Thanks for the responses on this question. They were all helpful (although 
> I'm holding back on Danove and Reiser - it is for a second year Greek 
class!)
> 
> The outline of my lecture is as follows. Any major 
omissions?
> 
> 
> The Language and Style of the Greek of 
Mark's Gospel
> 
> 1. Introduction
> 
> 2. 
Vocabulary
> a) Total vocabulary of 1,345 different words (1,270 + 75 
proper names)
> 
> b) Common vocabulary:
> a) Mark uses 31 
words more than fifty times (Morgenthaler, 167)
> 
> 
> c) 
Characteristic vocabulary (selected from Hawkins, Horae Synopticae, 
12-13)
> 
> 
>             
d) Absent vocabulary
> Some terms are relatively absent from Mark:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 3. Grammar
> 
a)      Verbal Forms in Mark: (from Decker, Temporal 
Deixis, 92)
> 
> b)      Historic Present: 
151 occurences (Hawkins, Horae Synopticae, 
> 144-148: list with synoptic 
parallels): 71 are forms of le/gw.
> 
> 
c)      Impersonal Plural (Turner/Elliott, Language, 
4-12; cf. Pryke, 
> Style, 
107-115)
>             
plural verb with no expressed subject:
> d)      
Genitive absolute: 29 occurences (Pryke: 24/29 are redactional): 
> open 
pericope with linking phrase.
> e)      a1rxomai 
as auxiliary verb (generally with infinitive): 33 times 
> 
[Turner-Elliott, Language, 93-97; Pryke, Style, 79-87]: often simplified in 
> Matthew (Head, Christology, 72).
> 
> 
> 4. 
Loan-words
> a)       Latin:
> 
b)       Aramaic words/phrases:
> 
c)       Aramaic names:
> 
> 5. Other 
Features
> 
i)                    
Parenthetical Comments:
> 
> 
> 
ii)                  
Diminutives:
> 
> 
> 
iii)                 
Duality (Neirynck)
> 
> 
iv)                
Semitic Interference in Marcan Syntax (Maloney)
> 
> 
> 
> 6. Concluding Reflections
> 
> 
i)                    
Markan Style and redaction of pre-Markan sources
> 
> 
ii)                  
Markan Style and the Synoptic Problem
> 
> 
iii)                 
Markan Style and the Textual Criticism of Mark
> 
> 
iv)                
Markan Style and Markan communication strategy
> 
> 
v)                  
Markan Style and the Markan Setting
> 
> 
> 
> 7. Recent 
Research
> 
> a)      R.J. Decker, Temporal 
Deixis of the Greek Verb in the Gospel of 
> Mark in Light of Verbal 
Aspect (2001)
> 
> b)      P. Danove, 
Linguistics and Exegesis in the Gospel of Mark: 
> Applications of a Case 
Frame Analysis and Lexicon (2002)
> 
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
> 
> At 03:37 PM 9/5/05, you wrote:
>>What would 
people recommend on the subject of the language and style of
>>Mark's 
Greek?
>>I'm looking at Hawkins, Horae Synopticae; N. Turner, Style 
(Moulton's
>>Grammar); C.H. Turner's 'Notes on Marcan Usage' and the 
standard
>>commentaries. But there must be some more recent monographs 
out 
there.
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>Peter 
M. Head, PhD
>>Sir Kirby Laing Senior Lecturer in New 
Testament
>>Tyndale House
>>36 Selwyn 
Gardens                                       
Phone: (UK) 01223
>>566607
>>Cambridge, CB3 
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Fax: (UK) 01223 
566608
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>>
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> Peter M. Head, PhD
> Sir Kirby Laing Senior Lecturer in New 
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> Tyndale House
> 36 Selwyn 
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> 566607
> Cambridge, CB3 
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